Suspect, Wife Arrested in Medford Pharmacy Massacre

Suffolk County police apprehended a 33-year-old suspect in the Father’s Day massacre at a Medford pharmacy Wednesday —the same day services were held for two of the four victims.

David Laffer was arrested after more than two dozen officers swarmed his Pitchpine Place home about two miles from the murder scene at Haven Drugs pharmacy on Southaven Avenue, police said. His wife, 29-year-old Melinda Brady, was also arrested.

Laffer was charged with first-degree murder and resisting arrest. Brady was charged with robbery and obstructing government administration. Both will be arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Central Islip.

“I was shocked,” said a neighbor, Trish Bohlert, who attended the couple’s wedding and knew Laffer as a nice guy. “Something must have made him snap.”

Laffer was reportedly hospitalized briefly before being taken to a local precinct where he is being held overnight. His capture concluded an intense three-day manhunt after surveillance cameras in the drug store captured a bearded man in a white cap and sunglasses commit the quadruple homicide before fleeing with a bag full of prescription medication.

The case was the worst of its kind in the region since the 2000 Wendy’s massacre in Queens when two men shot seven people point-blank in the head, killing five. It comes as Long Island is gripped by a heroin and prescription medication abuse epidemic.

While details continued to emerge about Laffer and the events surrounding the murders shortly after the pharmacy opened 10 a.m. Sunday, mourners gathered to remember those lost.

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Images of Laffer being taken out of his home in handcuffs Wednesday morning gave the first glimpse of an Army veteran who stands accused of taking four lives in cold blood during a robbery that lasted only minutes.

“The guy looked beat up,” said 52-year-old Pete Spano, who was working on a neighboring home when he witnessed the raid take place. “He looked like somebody who was coming off a drug addiction. This is not somebody who started doing drugs last month. This is somebody that’s been out there for awhile and this is the end result.”

Laffer graduated Patchogue-Medford High School in 1995. Records indicate he was stationed at Fort Huachuca in southeast Arizona, home of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center where he was reportedly an intelligence analyst prior to returning to Long Island.

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